Garment-supporter.



UNITED STATES PATENT men.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,600, dated June 12,1900.

Application filed April 4, 1900.

T0 to whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON FREEHLING, a citizen of the UnitedStates,-and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters,of which the following, when taken inv connection with the drawingsaccompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and completedescription, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which itpertains to understand, make, and use the same.

One object of this invention is to obtain a garment-supporter by meansof which when desired more than one garment may be secured together andattached to a supporting article of wear, as, say, in gentlemens apparelthe device may well be used to secure together the waistbands of a pairof trousers and underdrawers and such device be then attached to one ofthe ends of a pair of suspenders.

A further object of this invention is to obtainagarment-supporter whichmay be readily attached to any article of wear and used as a substitutefor a button lost therefrom, as, say, again referring to gentlemensapparel, the device may bereadily secured to the waistband of a pair oftrousers and when so secured serve as a button to which one end of apair of suspenders may be attached; and a third object of this inventionis to obtain a device of the kind named which when secured to a garmentand attached to a supporting article of wear will not readily becomedetached from its position, but which may when desired be easily sodetached.

A still further object of this invention is to obtain adevice of thekind named which shall be simple in construction, not liable to get outof order or repair, durable, and of small cost, and a device whereof itsmanner of operation will be suggested by its general appearance to onenot familiar therewith.

In the drawings referred to as forming a part of this specification, andwherein a reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used toindicate such part through the several views wherever the same appears,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a blank from which one of the parts ofthe device is formed; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the element ob-Serial No; 11,490. (No model.)

tainedby forming the blank illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspectiveview of an element additional to the one illustrated in Fig. 2 and oneworking complementary therewith; Fig. 4, a perspective view of a posthaving disks thereon forming the button and looking part of the device;Fig. 5, a top plan view of the device; Fig. 6, a side elevation of thedevice, such device being opened, and a sectional view of a portion of agarment placed between the engaging jaws thereof; Fig. 7, a sideelevation of the device, such device being closed, and a sectional viewof a garment placed between the jaws thereof; and Fig. 8, a verticalsectional view on line 8 8 of Fig.7, viewed in the direction indicatedby the arrows.

A is a blank. (1 a are prongs or projections on blank A.

D is an aperture in blank A, formed by punching or cutting out a portionof such blank. Aperture D may be said to comprise three parts 02 01 d 7Part d constitutes aslot in which the shank o'f the button E(illustrated in perspective in Fig. 4) slides when the blank A is bentup into shape, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and assembled with part B andsuch button E. Part (1 constitutes an opening through which part Bextends, in the manner hereinafter more fully described, and part at anopening through which disk 6' of the button E extends in the operationof the device, in the manner hereinafter more fully described.

d d are respectively broken lines in'Fig. 1, indicating the lines onwhich the blank A is bent to form the element shown in perspective inFig. 2 of the drawings.

Bis a sheet-metal part forming an element engaging with and workingcomplementary to the element A. (Shown in perspective in Fig. 2 of thedrawings.)

0t a are prongs or projections on element or part B, which are bent orformed into engaging teeth of the device, as is well illustrated in Fig.6 of the drawings.

1) is a slot in part or element B, in which slot shank e of the button Eis readily movable longitudinally of such part.

b b are notches formed by cutting or punching out a portion of the bodypart of part B, and b b are broken lines indicating the lines on whichthe parts b are bent over onto adjacent portions of the part or element13, as indicated by broken lines b b in Fig. 3, in order to insert theend thereof having such parts 6 so bent over thereon through part d ofaperture D of part A, so as to bring e, adjacent to the under side ofblank B,

disk 6 adjacent to the upper side of part B when the device is open, asin Fig. 6, and adjacent to the upper face of part A when the device isclosed, as in Fig. 7, shank c extending through the supporting articleto which the device is attached, and disk 6, forming, with shank e thebutton holding the supporting article (as one end of a pair ofsuspenders) on the shank 6 The shoulders d d hold the part B up adjaeentto the slotted part of the element A when the device is opened, asillustrated in Fig. 6.

F, Figs. 6 and 7, is a section of asm'all portion of an article ofclothing.

The operation of the device is as follows: When the button E is slid tothe position thereof illustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, the jaws ofthe device may be opened, as is illustrated in such Fig. 6, and anarticle of clothing may be inserted between such jaws. The jaws are thenclosed and the button E slid from the position thereof illustrated inFig. 7, at which time the ends of the part A B adjacent to the button Eare between disks 6 c and are held firmly together thereby, thus holdingthe garment F in place between the jaws of the device.

Disk 6 and shank e form a button over which an article of wear having abuttonhole therein may be buttoned, as, say, an elastic or 'a suspender.

To unloosen the device from the garment F, the button is slid from theposition thereof illustrated in Fig. 7 into substantially the positionthereof illustrated in Fig. 6, when the jaws are readily opened, asillustrated in said Fig. 6. In sliding the button E from the positionthereof illustrated in Fig. 6 intothe position thereof illustrated inFig. 7 and back again the shank c enters and leaves the slot (1, butremains at all times in slot Z), and the disk 6 passes through part d ofaperture D.

Having thus described myinvcntion, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a garment-supporter, the combination of a plate consisting of ablank provided with an aperture therethrough and formed into aperpendicular middle part, and horizontal end parts insubstantially-parallel planes, the aperture in the blank forming a slotin one of the horizontal parts of the plate and an opening formed topresent shoulders through the perpendicular part thereof, an additionalplate extending through the widest transverse part of the aperture inthe perpendicular part of the first-named plate, and held adjacent tothe first-named plate by the shoulders formed in the periphery of theaperture, and such additional plate provided with transverse slotsengaging with the perpendicular part of the first-named plate, and alsoprovided with a longitudinally-extending slot, and a button consistingof disks and ashank, the disks adjacent to the plates, respectively,when the device is closed and secured together, and the shank extending,at such time, through the slots in both plates and such button movableout of the slot in one plate, through the aperture in the perpendicularpart thereof and to the opposite end of the slot in the other plate;substantially as described.

2. In a garment-supporter, the combination of a plate consisting of ablank provided with an aperture therethrough and formed into aperpendicular middle part and hori zontal end parts insubstantially-parallel planes, the aperture in the blank forming a slotin one of the horizontal parts of the plate and an opening through theperpendicular part thereof, an additional plate extending through theaperture in the perpendicular part of the first-named plate, suchadditional plate provided with transverse slotsengaging with theperpendicular part of the first-named plate, and also provided with alongitudinally-extending slot, and a button consisting of disks and ashank, the disks adjacent to the plates, respectively, when the deviceis closed and secured together and the shank ICO extending at such timethrough the slots in IIC

